[Enchante]

Take some reponsibility, dude!!!!!

I was prescribed opioids repeatedly after surgeries and weaned myself off them as rapidly as possible. No adult in America should absolve themselves of responsibility for knowing what they are ingesting, why, and for how long.

[robroys woman]

Yep. I was given one of these super powerful “pain” drugs after I had shoulder surgery. I didn’t touch it. The street value was way too high!

[Yaelle]

Agreed, but these two were /are heroin addicts. In Anthony Kiedis’s case (lead singer of Red Hot Chili Peppers) he was open with his doctors and dentists once he was clean that time, and asked to not receive any pain meds. And some dentist I believe told him to take these, they would be fine. So in some cases it IS a doctor’s fault. Doctors should know if they have an addict recovering not to prescribe any drug that sends them back to Sister Morphine.

[reasonisfaith]

Totally. This guy is what you’d call an extreme wimp.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Take some reponsibility, dude!!!!!"

I'm not sure if you read the article or not, but here are some passages from it:

"But in recent years with the opioid epidemic, Balzary has a different question: 'What if your dealer was someone you'd trusted to keep you healthy since you were a kid?'

'Many who are suffering today were introduced to drugs through their healthcare providers,' he wrote."

"The performer wrote that he stopped taking the pills after a month, but that it would have been easy for him to get a refill."

Look, I'm not a fan of the Chili Peppers at all, I know about two songs by them. What he's trying to say has a lot of truth to it. He didn't get addicted to the prescribed opiods. What he's trying to say is that doctors who you trust with your health and life are telling you to take them, you get addicted and then they end up cutting you off. This is what happened to Rush Limbaugh, are you going to say the same thing to him? I've read articles years ago where the American Legion had brought this to light as happening at the VA to returning injured soldiers and Marines from Iraq and Afghanistan.

[mowowie]

about seven years ago i was in a very serious dirt bike accident. When i woke up 3 days later a doctor prescribed me a big bottle of Morphine pills...actually said Morphine on the bottle.
I told him that i didn’t want them i might get addicted he replied that if you don’t want to become addicted you won’t.
Anyway i took like 3 or 4 and a while later threw the rest of them out.